which bit broke, The plastic clip that holds the slave in the bracket? If so you can get replacements of them on their own.

Only make the sound on breaking? Does the frequency of the clicking sound decrease as the car slows? If all the springs, retainers and adjuster are fitted correctly I'd say the miss-alignment off the shoe has either buggered the shoe or drum, perhaps both.

Good stuff mate! Was in a similar position to you recently, replaced master/slave cylinder complete with new bracket, silicon spray on the release arm into the bell housing, also on gear linkages. Easy job to do really and ran like a dream after. 4 weeks later, Not so good at the minute...

Jury still out on this one. Replaced the fluid and burped the system, 100% improvement, no steering noise and nice and light to turn. After a short drive the noise came back and steering abit heavier. Took the cap of the fluid bottle and turned lock to lock for a couple of mins with the...

Cheers bud, Yea does read as the tale of one mans torment!!

Fluid change for power steering. replaced water pump Fecked up cambelt refitted cambelt new drive belts refilled and bled coolant

Well, all back together fired up straight away and ran fine. Feeewwww!!! Time for a shower and a fresh pair of pants as I may have soiled myself! !!! The secound time I timed it up it looked wrong again but on reflection it was fine, my mistake was loose fitting the lower cover. As when...

Well perhaps I was just being silly. had a fag. Watched youtube cambelt video. Time to try again... lined up crank pulley. Took pulley off. Marks were correct. Looked up at cams and they were lined up!!!! When I put the lower timing cover on I didnt bolt it as wanna gunna take off again...

Damn. And out again after turning by hand. ************

Still finding it difficult to get the belt on is deffinetly the correct belt. very tight to get over the autotensioner, must still be getting too much slack between crankshaft and exhaust cam. grrrrrrr Im trying, belt over crankshaf,t over both cams exhaust side first and then over water...

this looks better Inlet side down one tooth

Near impossible to see which needs to be rotated :(

OH SH***** changing the cambelt. must have had too much slack between between crankshaft and exhaust side camshaft pulley. I rotated by hand. Re checked markings and now my two camshaft marks don't line up. they are one tooth out. ****** Don't know if inlet needs to come down or exhaust...

Thats Handy!! Was looking for the tensioner mounting bolt for when i do the cambelt. Land rover dealer price is £1.25. cheap enough, but not a stock item!!! That link shows as an m10x25 bolt.... Job done! Although im still going to just thread lock the old one back in:D

Thanks for the replies guys! Brown, great explanation many thanks. Yea I did search first, couldn't think of the best search terms "vin" "vin and parts" "freelander vin" got me nowhere. Who buys freelanders?, hairdressers, homersexuals, + my wife----- I guess her plan is to get my out of the...

Not me neither!! Not interested in finding a particular part, Just don't understand the vin coding in relation to parts and on a few occasions I have options which could have been decided by vin breakdowns similar to my first post.

Hi all. can someone explain about vin numbers and buying parts, because I don't get it!!!! I've had the choice of a couple of parts on a few ocasions now, not knowing which i need been buying both and returning the one that doesn't fit. But lets be honest, that's a ball ache! example item1=...

No leak or belt squeel. Need to replace the leaky water pump at the weekend so new cambelt and tensioner going on, whilst its all going to be apart I have replacement drive belts also so any belt issues will be ruled out. Unless the pump or rack are on their way out I cant really see a lot...

Thanks Myotherwrold. No sense in replacing that then!! Lets see what happens after a fluid change. Picked up 5L of dexron3 ATF fluid today. For the fluid change Im going to try...... Remove fluid from the bottle until below the return pipe. remove return pipe from bottle. seal of that part...